Here. You know the name. Lanny davis joins us tonight as we track what could become a verdict that could hinge more than anything else on mierk call cohens testimony. Al sharpton is here more than anything else weve tried on the beat before. You see us with james brown. The rev is here. An artist making his beat debut harry mack. Our top story shows why a verdict is on the way in trumps criminal trial. His Defense Lawyers resting their case today telling the judge theyve completed their mission without ever having to call Defendant Trump to testify as is their right to call or not call. So they finished after less than two days in control. Trumps lawyers called two witnesses compared to the 19 witnesses the da called. Some of whom you can see right here. The star witness cohen, former trump aides like hope hicks, Stormy Daniels, tabloid chief and an array of many different important people. Now legally youre looking at the typical mismatch. The da the the prosecution calls more witness
department, at the same time, in the private sector using accounts on clinton email system. republican senator chuck grassley is investigating. clinton s people is telling the ap they didn t do anything wrong. bill. bill: peter doocy leading coverage in washington. martha. martha: that begs the question how exactly will hillary clinton address this fishindeed that happens today in connection with this u.n. speech that she is going to give? will she fall back on the argument she and her husband made in the past, they are basically always under attack? remember this, from 1998. the great story here for anybody willing to find it and write bit and explain it is this vast right-wing conspiracy that has been conspiring against my husband since the day he announced for president. martha: remember that? that is long time ago. long time clinton supporter jim carville was on competing network and singing that same tune. we ll show what you car develop said in very heated moment yesterday. our
the former democratic senator and vice presidential candidate. of course the jury last week exoneratessed him on charges he misappropriated campaign funds to hide payments to a mistress who had his child. but whatever the embarrassment of a moral mess, this is over for john edwards as far as a legal mess. we will keep you posted. a washington, dc, at 81 togethers. and a lot of democrats are sweating because the president. because the campaign is in a funk and getting to be worse. releasing a memo on the issue to show panic. and why they are pan inning and getting hot under the collar. guest: two democratic long time pollsters, james car develop james carvelle said obama is doing the messaging wrong. they had two focus groups one in
percent that is not a good place to be, but, white house aids say the president is not going to announce any new policies in this speech tomorrow, and, instead, will talk about a lost things he talked about before. getting congress to pass what is already on the table. here is jake carney. take a listen. recently put forward a set of ideas that congress could act on, to build on the measures he prepared last fall. congress should act on all of them. the problem for president is james car develop and some of his other democratic colleagues have written a memo to the democratic party and top folks saying that unless the president comes up with a dramatic new policy shift, a new strategy, he is going to face a tremendous head wind in november because of the economy and early signs is, tomorrow, the president will not roll out a new policy. shepard: he is reminding voters how bad it was when he got to office and how hard he tried to make it better. reporter: last night he had a serie